Ethereum Foundation Warning: The Glamsterdam Upgrade May Cause Disruption to Some Wallets and Tools

BlockBeats News, August 18th, the Ethereum Foundation (EF) reminded developers that the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade will bring changes to the Gas model, potentially causing compatibility issues for some wallets, indexers, and Gas estimation tools.

The Ethereum Foundation Protocol Engineering Ops Team stated that any tool relying on hard-coded maximum Gas limits will be affected and will need to be updated. The team recommended developers to test their systems in advance on the Plataberget public testnet, which will run for several months to prepare for the Glamsterdam upgrade.

According to the upgrade tracking platform Forkcast, Plataberget was launched on August 13th, while the Glamsterdam fork is scheduled to activate on the network this Thursday, followed by deployments on the Sepolia and Hoodi testnets.

This upgrade involves the EIP-8037 proposal, which will introduce a separate "state Gas" dimension for creating new blockchain states. After the upgrade, a regular ETH transfer to an existing account will still require 21,000 Gas, but sending ETH to a new account will incur additional state Gas fees.

The Ethereum Foundation stated that developers need to revisit software that defaults to "all ETH transfers cost only 21,000 Gas" or that only uses a single Gas dimension to estimate transaction costs.

In addition to the Gas model adjustment, Glamsterdam will also include native proposer-builder separation (PBS), block-level access lists, and enhancements such as increased contract and initialization code size limits.